Hussein Fayyad

Hussein Fayyad (1960-) was a Palestine Liberation Organization guerrilla and one of the perpetrators of the 1978 Coastal Road massacre.

Biography
Hussein Fayyad was born in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip in 1960, and he became a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Fayyad was a member of the thirteen-man commando that took part in the cross-border raid on Israel from South Lebanon in 1978 that led to the Coastal Road massacre, and he was captured by Israeli forces. He spent seven years in prison before being released in a prisoner exchange in 1985.